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Pipe Dedicating Gone Awry
There’s a large consensus that the same blend can taste very different in two different pipes, cleanliness aside. Some perhaps is workmanship but most is the vagaries of the briar.- jguss
- Post #6
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Summer Intern
I just heard from Jason. He's a CEO at a startup and his options are already in the money to the tune of $40 million. I have no idea what the startup does, and frankly I suspect Jason doesn't either. If he's the man I take him for he'll cash in his chips and quit next Friday.- jguss
- Post #5
- Forum: General Discussion
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London Taking George Washington's Statue Down!
A fantastic line from an under appreciated movie.- jguss
- Post #3
- Forum: General Discussion
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Help? I Found a Prince "Something Special" Imported Briar pipe with a loose stem today E within a diamond logo
Probably closer to Ralphie Parker. -
Help? I Found a Prince "Something Special" Imported Briar pipe with a loose stem today E within a diamond logo
In the unenlightened days of my youth special was not always a compliment. -
Help? I Found a Prince "Something Special" Imported Briar pipe with a loose stem today E within a diamond logo
For the insatiably curious here’s a fuller list of the Bonnie Brier line as well as other models (including the Something Special) sold by FP circa 1978: -
Help? I Found a Prince "Something Special" Imported Briar pipe with a loose stem today E within a diamond logo
According to Who Made that Pipe it’s one of Finsbury Products Inc.’s pipes. FP was incorporated on 11/25/1975 and went inactive on 1/25/1995. It was based in Westchester NY in the village of Elmsford. One of their other models is the Bonnie Brier and its submodels include the Matterhorn... -
Show Off Your Tom Howard Pipes
Thank you. Unfortunately the sources are almost entirely undigitized. You have to find a paper archive and wade through many tens of thousands of pages of trade publications. The NYPL is the preeminent resource in the States; it contains the Arents collection. In the UK it’s probably the...- jguss
- Post #12
- Forum: Pipes: Show Us Your (fill in the blank) Pipes
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Show Off Your Tom Howard Pipes
Absolutely right. Howard was making hundreds of thousands of dollar a year in the 1940s when that was much bigger money than it is today (and it's still a very nice chunk of change). He wasn't spending his nights and weekends cranking out pipes for the masses. Here's the original November...- jguss
- Post #10
- Forum: Pipes: Show Us Your (fill in the blank) Pipes
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End Tobacco Loopholes Act (United States)
All the sponsors are all dems. I’m highly skeptical this goes anywhere. Having said that of course cellaring is always the best hedge against armageddon.- jguss
- Post #4
- Forum: Tobacco Legislation
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Broken Pipe: Mark Ryan
I was lucky enough to speak with Mark many times, and cherish one particular memory of an engrossing dinner in Las Vegas with him, Emily, Jesse and several other members of the pipe world. As many have noted Mark was always ready to share his knowledge and expertise with anyone who asked. He...- jguss
- Post #19
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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The French Conundrum
So does he trigger love or disgust? Or both?- jguss
- Post #26
- Forum: General Discussion
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Fisher Pipes
If the claim is that it was made and sold by Paul Fischer then it’s obviously a mistake. I’ve seen numerous documents bearing Paul Fischer’s signature (correspondence, draft registration, Social Security application, etc), even visited his grave, and every single time it’s spelled Fischer... -
Dinner In The Oldest Restaurant in Malaya
I haven’t been in that part of Malaysia since 1985. That restaurant, at least, looks like it wouldn’t have changed a bit in the last forty years. Well, maybe the addition of wifi?- jguss
- Post #3
- Forum: Food & Drink
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Gus’s Smoke Shop
How could I have missed this? I’m in a crunch now but will try to post something later, probably after returning from the Chicago Show. For now I’ll say the pre-Fudge era is different from the narrative related above. The eponymous Gus’s surname was not Pfender/Fender, and he actually sold...- jguss
- Post #42
- Forum: Pipe Tobacconists - B&M's and Internet Retailers
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Enlighten me on C&D and GLP
So I’m not sure what’s considered appropriate nowadays, but smaller, being a comparative adjective, feels a bit dismissive to me. A quick google yielded a variety of more sensitive descriptions. Some are so obscure or elliptical as to verge on the arcane, which in today’s world may be a very...- jguss
- Post #62
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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Interesting Completed Ebay Auctions - British Pipes
- jguss
- Post #4,631
- Forum: British Pipes
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Could you Identify Manufacturer?
Lermontov? Or Blanco White?- jguss
- Post #12
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion